Essentials in Church History. Joseph Fielding Smith

The First Births and Death in the Colony

       The “Old Fort”

       Captain Brown’s Journey to the Coast

       Special Conference in the Valley

       The Return of the Pioneers

       President Young’s Instructions and Blessing

       Organization of a Stake of Zion

       Population at the Close of 1847

       Chapter 41

       Activities on the Missouri

       Organization of the First Presidency

       The Sustaining Vote of the Saints

       Kanesville—Pottawattamie County

       President Young’s Second Trip Across the Plains

       Plague of the Crickets

       The Miracle of the Gulls

       The Feast of the Harvest

       The Return of Oliver Cowdery

       The Beginning of New Settlements

       Filling Vacancies in the Council of the Twelve

       The Salt Lake Stake

       The Perpetual Emigration Fund

       Increased Missionary Activity

       An Unexpected Harvest

       Chapter 42

       A Provisional Government

       The First Political Convention

       The Territory of Utah

       Territorial Officers Appointed

       The “Run-Away Officials”

       Their Report to Washington

       Governor Young’s Defense

       Their Places Filled

       The Deseret Evening News

       Announcement of the Plural Marriage Doctrine

       Laying the Corner Stones of the Salt Lake Temple

       A Solemn Assembly

       President Young’s Vision

       Success in Foreign Mission Fields

       The Foundation for Future Labors

       The Hand-Cart Immigration

       The First Hand-Cart Companies

       The Willie and Martin Companies

       The Question of Traveling Considered

       The Babbitt and Margetts Tragedies

       Disasters on the Way

       Extreme Suffering on the Sweetwater

       A Party to the Rescue

       “Martin’s Ravine”

       The Arrival in the Valley

       Later Hand-Cart Immigration

       The Passing of Prominent Men

       The Assassination of Parley P. Pratt

       Chapter 43

       Political Changes

       Character of the Federal Judges